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discover
verb as in find, uncover
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Example Sentences
Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA -- that molecular blueprint for life -- over 70 years ago.
She said some crew members told her not to film them on the closed set, in case, she said, it was discovered they had worked on Rust "and I might never get a job again".
Sara Sharif begged her parents for forgiveness for “being rude” in a letter discovered after her death, a court has heard.
A baby's remains have been discovered on land near a motorway, police said.
And while newer studies had started to describe conscious top-down mechanisms, no specific brain circuits were discovered until the Salk team took a crack at the case.
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When To Use
What are other ways to say discover?
The verb discover is used with objective clauses as a synonym of learn in order to suggest that the new information acquired is surprising to the learner: I discovered that she had been married before. To learn is to add to one’s knowledge or information: to learn a language. To ascertain is to verify facts by inquiry or analysis: to ascertain the truth about an event. To detect implies becoming aware of something that had been obscure, secret, or concealed: to detect a flaw in reasoning.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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